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Positive Women's Network - Action and Leadership on Women and HIV/AIDS
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About Us

We want to improve the lives, medical care, and social realities for women living with HIV. Our vision, Action and Leadership on Women and HIV/AIDS, fuels our work in British Columbia and across Canada. From the start of our organization in 1991, we’ve been a group of HIV-infected and HIV-affected women working together. As the leading HIV+ women explained at the time, they embraced a partnership of infected and affected women so that the infected women could focus their energy on staying healthy and the affected women could put the energy needed into bringing program and support ideas into reality.

This partnership continues to this day, and positive women are represented from leadership at the Board level to volunteers in the day to day program delivery. We believe in the strength of partnerships in building a strong community and this is reflected in our daily work as well as on long term projects with other organizations. See our official Mission Statement below.

How We Work 

The experience and wisdom of HIV+ women guides our work, including support services, education/ prevention, and resources. We offer services that are welcoming, non-judgmental, confidential, and respectful. A wide range of women access our services which are offered in person, over the phone, or via the web. We are trans-inclusive.

Women know the issues. We know that poverty exists. We know that violence and racism are real in women’s lives. We know that women are caregivers, and that women’s needs often come last. And we know that women have the answers.

 

Mission Statement

Positive Women’s Network, a partnership of women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, supports women in making informed choices about HIV/AIDS and health. We provide safe access to support and education/prevention for women in communities throughout British Columbia. The Positive Women’s Network provides leadership and advocacy around women’s HIV/AIDS health and social issues in the national and local health care communities.

 

Annual General Report 2008-2009

 

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